TCUK18 Speaker Phil Lane – I have to create mobile apps too!?

Phil Lane will be giving a presentation at TCUK18 entitled “I have to create mobile apps too!?”

As technical communicators, one of the many varied skills we require is creating output from our carefully-crafted content. Until now, this meant creating PDF outputs, help files, or HTML packages. Now a new challenger enters the arena – mobile apps.

Compared to traditional output formats, creating a mobile app from your content is a little more complicated. This talk will show you how, using the Apache Cordova Open Source framework, you can RELEASE YOUR CONTENT by creating mobile apps directly from your technical documentation

About Phil Lane

Phil Lane is a Content Strategy Specialist at Imprimatur Limited. He combines his experience in XML with his understanding of documentation processes to develop strategies and implementation plans that deliver improved documentation efficiency.

Phil particularly relishes projects in the automotive industry, where finding solutions is often challenging because of the need for simultaneously-available multi-lingual content, the pressures of a strict 12-month product cycle, and the tightly-constrained in-vehicle operating environment.

Phil holds a degree in Engineering and has a strong computer systems background reaching back over 14 years.